arXiv:2607.15774cs.LGcs.AI2026-07中稿 · KDD

用可解释AI自动筛选时间序列关键特征,大幅降低计算负担。

Scaling Time Series Classification via XAI-Driven Data Reduction

论文配图:Scaling Time Series Classification via XAI-Driven Data Reduction
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  • 用XAI生成局部重要性,聚合为全局特征权重
  • 实现80%~90%数据压缩,精度几乎不变
  • 让复杂模型在超大时序数据上可运行

时间序列分类(TSC)面临可扩展性挑战,先进模型如Transformer的复杂度随序列长度呈二次增长,通道数线性增长,导致大规模数据难以处理。本文提出drXAI方法,利用GPU加速的快速分类器(Hydra)生成局部归因,聚合为全局特征重要性,并通过自动化肘部截断法选择最具代表性的特征,无需人工设定阈值。在合成与真实世界单变量、多变量数据集上评估,drXAI在合成数据中成功恢复真实特征,而传统基线失败;在真实数据上实现80%至90%的数据缩减,同时保持与全量训练相当的分类精度。更重要的是,drXAI使如ConvTran等高资源消耗模型得以处理此前因内存限制无法处理的数据集。结果表明,XAI不仅能提升可解释性,还可作为鲁棒的特征选择工具,显著提升时序分析的可扩展性。所有代码与数据均开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Explainable AI (XAI) for time series has seen significant algorithmic growth, but its utility in providing measurable performance gains for downstream tasks remains under-explored. This paper bridges this gap by introducing drXAI, a novel methodology that repurposes XAI attribution methods for effective data reduction in Time Series Classification (TSC). The core challenge in modern TSC is scalability; state-of-the-art models, such as Transformers, exhibit quadratic complexity relative to sequence length and linear complexity relative to the number of channels. This renders them computationally prohibitive for massive datasets. drXAI addresses this by using a fast, GPU-accelerated classifier (Hydra) to generate local attributions. We aggregate these into global feature importance scores and employ an automated elbow-cut heuristic to select the most salient features without requiring manual thresholds. We evaluate our approach on both synthetic and real-world univariate and multivariate datasets. On synthetic benchmarks, drXAI successfully recovers ground-truth features where traditional baselines fail. On real-world data, drXAI achieves between 80% and 90% data reduction while maintaining classification accuracy comparable to models trained on the full dataset. Most importantly, we show that drXAI allows resource-intensive models like ConvTran to scale to datasets that were previously inaccessible due to memory constraints. Our results show the benefits of using XAI not just for interpretability, but as a robust tool for feature selection and scalability in time series analysis. All our code and data are openly available.

时间序列XAI降维可扩展性

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